In my first web-paper, I discussed my
discomfort with Helene Cixous’ proclamation that “women must write women”
(Cixous 877). Cixous discusses how women have been “kept in the dark” and led
into self-disdain for so long that the amount of women authors is miniscule
relative to men. I do not contest this statement and I believe that it is
important for women to write and to let their voices be heard. However, while I
realize that my discomfort with writing and speaking in class probably has a
lot, if not, everything to do with the fact that I am a woman who has group up
in a patriarchal society I do not think that every woman’s rebellion has to